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    With free screenwriting workshops, striking Hollywood writers look to raise spirits and funds

    LOS ANGELES — When some 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike in early May, screenwriter Ed Solomon, like so many of his peers, worried about his creative juices stagnating. During the two previous writers strikes, in 1988 and 2008, Solomon — whose credits include "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "Men in Black" and "Now You See Me" — had taken classes, enrolling in a ...
    by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times Sep 19, 2023 5 minutes
    Screenwriter Ed Solomon attends the "Now You See Me 2" world premiere at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 theater on June 6, 2016, in New York City.

    LOS ANGELES — When some 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike in early May, screenwriter Ed Solomon, like so many of his peers, worried about his creative juices stagnating.

    During the two previous writers strikes, in 1988 and 2008, Solomon — whose credits include "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "Men in Black" and "Now You See Me" — had taken classes, enrolling in a film school summer session and a series of fiction writing workshops.

    "I was thinking, 'What can I take that would keep sort of poking me?'" he says. "I was just hoping to keep pushing myself and challenging myself."

    As he looked around for similarly stimulating courses earlier this year, Solomon realized that, having worked for decades in Hollywood, he already had access to many of the best film and television writers in town.

    What if, instead of taking a course, he helped

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